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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Agency.">“Agency” means any department, board, commission, council, authority, committee, office, or other unit of City government in either the executive or legislative branches, including all elected officials.</para>
    <para num="(c)" />
    <para num="(d)" heading="Non-permanent record.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Non-permanent record” means a public record with temporary value that may be destroyed after the passage of a specified period of time.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Non-permanent record” includes:<para num="(i)">extra copies of documents that:<para num="(A)">have no separate administrative purpose or value; and</para>
          <para num="(B)">are preserved only for convenience or reference;</para>
        </para>
        <para num="(ii)">informational copies of correspondence, directives, forms, or other similar documents on which no administrative action is recorded or taken;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">library and museum materials made or acquired for reference or exhibition purposes;</para>
        <para num="(iv)">personal papers or papers of a private or non-official character that pertain to an individual’s private affairs;</para>
        <para num="(v)">duplicate copies of documents maintained in the same file;</para>
        <para num="(vi)">extra copies of printed or processed materials for which complete record sets exists, including current and superceded manuals maintained outside the agency responsible for maintaining the manual;</para>
        <para num="(vii)">catalogs, trade journals, and other publications received from government agencies, commercial firms, or private institutions that require no further action by the agency; or</para>
        <para num="(viii)">physical exhibits, artifacts, and other material objects lacking evidential value.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Record.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Record” means any documentary material in any form created or received by an agency in connection with the transaction of public business.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Record” includes:<para num="(i)">written materials, email, books, photographs, photocopies, publications, forms, microfilms, tapes, computerized records, maps, drawings, and other materials in any format;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">data generated, stored, received, or communicated by electronic means for use by, or storage in, an information system or for transmission from one information system to another; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">non-permanent records.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Record inventory.">“Record inventory” means a survey of all records series maintained by an agency resulting in a detailed, itemized compilation of the records in the possession of that agency.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Retention period.">“Retention period” means the period of time that a record must be retained in accordance with an approved Records Retention and Disposition Schedule.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="State Archivist.">“State Archivist” means the individual appointed under Maryland &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gsg|9-1005"&gt;State Government Article, § 9-1005, &lt;/cite&gt;or that individual’s designee.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-407</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
